After Edith’s wedding to Sir Anthony Strallan ends in tears, the carefully prepared dishes that were to form her wedding breakfast are whisked away and end up as the servants’ dinner. Many gloriously extravagant foods are on offer, but the lobster dish is particularly striking, garnished as it is with whole lobster shells in a gravity-defying pyramid. The edible elements are, indeed, almost lost beneath it. However, as the servants tuck in, they find they a
